25" 3.5 lb AK vs 12" Diameter Cabbage

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Now, some of you old cabbage heads already know what happened here. No one expected the AK to lose this match.

This was the Toughest Cabbage I'd ever seen. A foot in diameter, dense, hard, heavy for a vegitable. ( I should have weighed it.) If you put this thing in a pillow slip you could knock someone out, I swear.

Anyway, I have a Chinese Butcher Cleaver, almost 8" long blade, 4" wide, and 30oz heavy. This knife was insufficient for the cabbage. The cabbage won. My wife embeded the blade halfway through the thing. I did not want to risk chopping and have the cleaver skid out to the side. I tried a tentative swing and did not trust the operation enough to give it more juice.

So into the khuk closet I went, and out came the 25" AK. I figured the 2.5 lb 20" AK too small for this. So I went to the big gun, the 25"

That AK went through the Cabbage fast. It scared all of us in the kitchen. The shelf rocked, everything jumped, and it hit the cuttting board hard and scoured that as well.

I realize Cabbages are not exactly Buffalo heads, 8" diameter Pine trees, or attacking Al Queda terrorists, but it sure was fun. I'd like to line up 2 or 3 more. I bet the thing could go through at least two with one swipe.

I'd hate to have my arm in the wrong place at the wrong time with any khuk, but especially the big ones.


munk
 
Awesome test Munk! :D I always have fun in the kitchen with my Khukuris. Did something simmaler a few months ago with some frozen beef and my UBE. If you get 2 or 3 cabbages and attempt this, please let us know how it went. I'm sure the AK will come out on top.

I'd hate to have my arm in the wrong place at the wrong time with any khuk, but especially the big ones.
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Tell me about it! :eek: :eek: :o

Heber (one of poor fools in the Safety Thread)
 
I remember your cut. It was not a full power direct slice, either, was it?
If I recall, you were darn lucky, and it wasn't even traveling that fast. Ouch!!


munk
 
Oh, I forgot to mention when the AK was traveling through the cabbage, it threw the halfs, one of which landed in a Wok nearby.


munk
 
Munk, you are correct, it was a Ricote hit at an angle so it didn't go threw the bone. It just cut a lot of skin and 4 tendons. And yes, it was painfull. Almost 2 years later it's 90% healed. :D

Must have been cool watching the Cabbage fly. :) Busting up chunks of frozen beef is fun too.

Heber
 
I was joking if I get a deer I can hang it and take off quarters with a single swipe.


munk
 
Godzilla (my old 5lb 25" AK) would cut threw wood like nothing I had seen before. It handled Beef ribs like the ribs wern't even there. I'm sure that in the correct hands it could cut a person in half. With the right hit, it could cut threw 4" limbs in a single swing.

I'm not sure if you are joking or not about quartering a dear in one hit with it, but after having Godzilla for a few months, I know the 25" AKs are increadable!! :eek::D:D

Heber
 
Here's a show I'd pay to watch: Cooking with Munk, where each week we get to experience culinary adventures involving exotic cutlery and vintage military firearms. :)
 
munk said:
I was joking if I get a deer I can hang it and take off quarters with a single swipe.


munk
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P.S. We got our second deer today, if you drop by Wednesday we can test your theory. :D
 
Reminds me...2 of my grandsons were fasinated with my stuff and when their grandmother called me to the kitchen to cut up 2 watermelons, they immediately asked if I were going to use one of my "big knives". Smiling, I grabbed my Tarwar, took the melons outside, lined them up (the melons, not the kids) and went to it. Two at a time...chop, chop, chop. Took almost nothing more than guiding the blade...

Yeah...cleave a man in two...no problem at all.
 
you cut cabbit in half with a 25" AK ?

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I'm not joking about quartering a deer- I think it could be done.

The counter shook so violently we thought the dishware had broken. The cutting board was hard plastic and only showed a line. The Toaster and toaster ovens and everything else moved.

I had the thing at 1/3 or less power. I'd love to try something else. This idea of Munk's cooking adventure...MIA's, Khukuris, Goat's heads.... WE need a bikini clad girl....A Parrot that talks might be good too; but no Monkeys. God, I hate Monkeys on TV. (Unless we could behead a few monkeys... maybe those criminal monkeys in Asia that are in Jail could be excuted instead. Out of mercy. "Keep that up, Monkey, and we're shipping your ass to munk".)

munk
 
Munk?

You are right. Quartering a deer in one swipe is possible. Certainly the hide, flesh, tendon and cartilege would be no problem. But you'd have to have the impact site precisely alligned, the bones will crush with impact, but are dense enough to bend or chip blades.

In most of the sacrificial images I've seen, the goats or bullocks have their necks fully extended by someone pulling on a rope, and the rear end similarly secured. This way the articulation of the vertebrae is fully visibile and and the khuks are deliberately aimed between the neck vertebrae--and those are HUGE mutha khuks.

KHUKING WITH MUNK has a nice PBS sort of ring to it.

A khuk up to 15in will serve to cut through the flesh with ease, and no real need for force; simply sliding the blade through the flesh goes easily. But really they are too large to be of real service in rendering the flesh. If that is all you had, it would work, of course. You would be more well served with a smaller butchering tool.



Kis
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I experimented with an 18" AK on deer a couple years ago. It'll do the job, but it's definitely not the right tool. Now cabbage on the other hand...
 
Munk, if you could get the show on right after the Iron Chef, I would get cable again! :D

Tom
 
Does anyone remember the "galloping Goumet" He got drunk. "And now, for another glass of wine."

Instead of the wine, we'd see chef munk randomly firing large bore revolvers while cooking, and woe to the pot that fell to the floor!!

munk
 
Munk - I tried it with a frozen 18 or 19 lb. turkey one time on the picnic table. ChairWoman wanted it "halved." It did it unbelieveable.....one swipe. I'd pay to get the channel if you do the "Cooking with Munk." Quartering a goat is sure no problem. We bled him out good, skinned him, then let the AK loose & it was quartered; no sawing, no tearing, no twisting.
 
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